The Ain county, in the heart of the French Plastics Valley (between Lyon and Geneva)

The Ain county, between is the perfect place for your setting-up with 2 international airports (Geneva Cointrin Airport and Lyon St Exupery Airport), high-speed train stations (Paris in less than 2 hours), highways with connections to Italy, Spain, Germany, and broadband internet (optic fiber) in all the county...

The Ain county is also the 1st most industrialised county in France, the second most important place in Europe for plastics industry (400 firms, 33,000 employees). R&D activity is triggered by the European Pole of Plasturgie (the largest technical center in France dedicated to plasturgy), Plastipolis (the French center of competitiveness devoted to plastics industry) in various sectors : plastronics, packaging, composite materials...

Thanks to this support, major plastics companies have chosen to set up their activity in our county : Toray (Japan), Polyone (USA), Hexcel Composites (USA)...

Our support for your investment project

You have an investment project in the South-East of France : creation of a new branch (business offices, storage, activity building), industrial partnership, takeover a local company... ?

Our agency, the Ain Economic Mission, supports companies (free and confidential services) throughout all the stages of their investment projects in our county :

• site search (land, building)
• recruitment of the staff
• financial support
• introduction to local network
• ...

We will then be very pleased to meet you during the FIP show (booth E51/D54) , in order to present you our support and the assets of our county for your development (business opportunities, financial helps, setting-up solutions...).

More information : mission-economique01@cg01.fr